Children of the further dark : the poetry of Christopher Dewdney / selected with an introduction by Karl E. Jirgens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewdney, Christopher, Author.

Contributor:

Jirgens, Karl E.

Series:

Laurier poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

English literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 58 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving through eons of natural history to cityscapes and the digital present, Dewdney’s poetics encapsulate often surreal experiences from radical and epiphenomenal perspectives. His writing vibrates in a standing wave between science and art, reason and myth—embedding geology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and post-digital technology within a play of transitory viewpoints. Children of the Outer Dark provides a geological survey of Dewdney’s poetic strata. The poems selected, along with their order of presentation, serve a critical function to mine diverse layers of development in Dewdney’s career. This collection will reward all those who seek inspiration and will provide teachers, students, and other writers with a short natural history of one of Canadas essential poetic minds.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Biographical Note

Introduction

Trees

The Owl

Nightwalker

Coelacanth

Sol du Soleil

In the Critical Half-Light

In a Manner of Fact

Into the Maelstrom

August

That Night at Lake Huron

On Attaining Remote Control

This Is of Two Worlds

Poem Using Lines Spoken by Suzanne

United

Dreadlocks at the Helm

Souvenir

Human Consciousness

The Immaculate Perception

Metaphor Templates

Homonyms as Linguistic Necker Cubes

Depth Sounding, Lake Windermere

The Owls

Ten Typically Geological Suicides

Halcyon July in Algoma

Demon Pond

The Lynx in the Rapids

November

Winter Solstice

Winter Hawk

The World Poem

Hollow Wind,Empty Stars

Seven Electrical Angels

Gravid Lux

Fitting the Language Prosthesis

Language Acquisition Trauma

Afterword

Bibliography

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Books in the Laurier Poetry Series

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610908028

9781554587155

1554587158

9781280908026

1280908025

9781554581023

1554581028

OCLC:

226374711